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Happy Birthday Clare

Happy birthday to my lovely sister-in-law Clare.

I am in love with this flower ... I keep making them ... so I thought I'd take this opportunity to show you how to do it.  Punch three scallop circles and screw up each one .... over and over again ... imagine you are breaking down the fibres of the cardstock .... when you think that is enough ... fold and bend some more - especially around the edges  ... the more you screw it up the better .... because you want to be able to split it into two layers - the cardstock will split into two layers that you can peel apart from each other. 

Here it is with the layers coming apart .... don't worry if you tear it ... it all adds to the vintage look ... infact if it hasn't torn ... I tear it LOL

Do this to all three punched circles ... layer the six pieces together to create a beautiful vintage flower.

Happy birthday

With love from Nikki, Paul, Olivia, Kieran, Max and Spencer xxxx

 

Happy Birthday Kathy

These are the girls I scrapbook with, Tina, Aris and Kathy (we missed you Tammy) - how much scrapbooking and card making do we actually do?  Hummm .... honestly ... well ... not a great deal but we do a lot of talking about card making and scrapbooking so it kinda counts ... doesn't it!  

It's Kathy's birthday today - so Happy Birthday Kath!  I hope you have a great day.

And here's Kathy's birthday card - made using the 'Live Like You Mean It' hostess level one set - when I was thinking of a card to make for Kathy I remembered this set - this is Kathy ... she is doing just this - and I admire her for it.  We have some great chats and she has opened my eyes to so many things ... thank you Kath.

Using the two step stamping technique and a nifty little bow using the Double Rectangle punch (you just thread the ribbon through the two holes and hey presto ... one cute little bow), it was a quick card to make.

Back tomorrow with Making Merry Monday.

Happy stampin

Love Nikki

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